APPENDIX 



AS the author's attacks in the body of this book 

 upon the Civih'sation peoples have sometimes been 

 regarded as extreme and unjustified, it has been 

 thought appropriate, here in the Appendix, to 

 collect a few notes from reliable authorities on the 

 characteristics and customs of pre-civilised men — not so 

 much of course with the object of proving the latter 

 always superior to the former, as of bringing to light 

 the many admirable virtues of the early peoples, which a 

 cheap modern civilisation has neglected or somewhat con- 

 temptuously ignored. 



No one would deny that there are many cases of primitive 

 folk — folk unclean and ignorant and absurdly superstitious 

 — who can hardly be said to command our admiration. 

 On the other hand there are a vast number of cases of 

 an opposite sort — cases which present to us the realisation 

 of some remarkable human characteristic or social capacity 

 well worthy of consideration or even of imitation. If our 

 Civilisation is ever to move on to some form better than 

 the present, it is these latter cases which ought to be of 

 assistance ; for they not only direct our attention to human 

 possibilities, but by showing what has been realised in the 

 past assure us that such ideals are by no means unattainable 

 now. 



It is therefore with a view to cases of this kind that 

 the following Appendix has been framed. 



E. C. 

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